New to Vanessa Arbuthnott Fabrics – The Forest Collection
New to Vanessa Arbuthnott Fabrics – The Forest Collection
We are thrilled to introduce you to Vanessa’s latest fabric creation, The Forest Collection. Her immersion in nature has inspired this collection of forest style fabrics perfect for our made to measure curtains, furniture and home furnishings.
Themes inspired by natural woodlands and forests brings the outside in like only Vanessa can! Ever conscious of the environment, inherent in Vanessa’s work practices and mirrored in her designs which burst with beautiful imagery of the world around us.
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During the Spring of 2021 when museums were closed and travel was limited, it was the natural world around her which fueled her imagination. Vanessa spent many hours experimenting with the art of potato printing, carving, and then hand printing more and more intricate and delicate shapes. Exploring the interplay between negative and positive spaces.
“The flawless and fascinating shapes of ferns have captivated me since I was a child. I would while away hours walking through forests and woods, collecting fern fronds and taking them home to press and draw. I was endlessly captivated by their forms; sometimes symmetrical and other times not.”
A little behind the scenes, where the magic happens in Vanessa’s kitchen with the humble potato.
Here is Vanessa speaking first hand about her design process, including the potato prints and process above, in our ‘New Forest’ highlights on Instagram.
NEW DESIGNS FOR 2022
Five designs in a total of 27 colourways. Four are printed on a unique eco-cloth, woven from 60% linen and 40% organic cotton yarns especially for Vanessa in Lancashire, Britain. We have introduced beautiful new colours including Ochre, Lichen, Marigold and Moss. The fifth fabric design is a most striking, contemporary woven stripe in an earthy soft orange called Carrot.
All of the new colours have been carefully chosen to compliment Vanessa’s colour palette allowing seamless integration with previous collections and current trends.
Buy Forest Collection fabrics as made to measure curtains.
WILD FERN
Vanessa explains: “Is a simple, printed asymmetrical stylized fern leaf – with dots down the centre reflecting the line of dotty structures you see on the reverse of fronds, commonly called fruit dots. As flowerless plants, ferns use these structures as cases that hold their reproductive material.”
Circular Pouffes from left to right: Lily Pink, Ochre, and Moss. The warm Ochre Wild Fern soft furnishings help to add the perfect colour in this dining room setting.
LITTLE FERN
This design is a smaller scale negative version of the Wild Fern, reminiscent of Indian block prints, as seen on the Sapperton Armchairs below.
These two Sapperton Armchairs are in Peach and Cornflower whilst the beautiful pink curtains are in Little Fern – Mallow.
SEE ALL FOREST COLLECTION COLOURWAYS
SOW & SCATTER
“I designed this relaxed and fun print using potatoes cut in the positive form, scanned in my marks and used the computer to turn it around into a negative pattern.” The two chairs and cube footstool really show off this fantastic design.
Chairs are in Soft Cornflower with a Cube Footstool in Marigold, along with a pair of statement curtains in Sow and Scatter – Cornflower.
LATTICE LEAF
“I have always loved the structure of a trellis and here I have taken the bud from my Life & Eternity design and encapsulated it inside this lattice.”
Circular Pouffes in Lattice Leaf – Ochre, Lichen, and Scree, Cornflower.
Curtains in Lattice Leaf: The bathroom curtain is in the Soft Cornflower, Peach colourway, with the bedroom bedhead curtain in Soft Cornflower, Moss.
NEW LINEN UNION WEAVE: MALMO
Striking and contemporary stripe, woven with a blend of organic cotton and linen in an earthy soft orange called Carrot. This beautiful new design also incorporates embroidery.
NEW COLOURWAYS OF EXISTING DESIGNS
LAPLAND STRIPE: This woven linen stripe is an old favourite and has been re-coloured to coordinate with these new prints, combining soft Cornflower Blue with pretty Damson and Lily Pinks.
UP THE GARDEN PATH: We have added a Cornflower of this design.
LIFE & ETERNITY DETAIL: Cornflower.
SIMPLE TICKING DETAIL: This timeless design now comes in Marigold, Cornflower, Lichen, Pigeon, Mallow and Peach.
STOCKHOLM STRIPE: Scree, Soft Cornflower & Charcoal.
Stockholm Stripe – Scree, Soft Cornflower & Charcoal / Life & Eternity Detail – Cornflower / Up the Garden Path – Cornflower
Lapland Stripe – Soft Cornflower, Cornflower, Damson, Lily Pink / Simple Ticking Detail – Mallow and Peach (Here is the entire collection of colourways from our Tickings range)
Left to right: A beautiful pair of Quilts in Lapland Stripe – Soft Cornflower, Cornflower, Damson, Lily Pink; Roman Blinds in Up the Garden Path – Cornflower, with Circular Pouffe in Life and Eternity Detail – Cornflower; lastly, Simple Ticking detail – Marigold as bottom borders on the kitchen Roman Blinds.
BRAND NEW 2022 BROCHURES
You can order a copy of our new ‘Design by Colour’, and/or, the ‘Design by Room’ brochures by clicking here. The Design by Room encapsulates all of our most up to date fabrics, with the Design by Room giving inspiration through lifestyle images, along with information on our Made to Measure service.
If you’re looking for more fabric designs directly inspired by nature then please take a look at the Woodland fabric Collection.
We sell fabrics exclusively designed by Vanessa Arbuthnott, along side small, bespoke collection of Made to Measure items which includes curtains, blinds, sofas, footstools, chairs, headboards, and quilts, all handmade specially for you by master crafts people.
